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Show NUMBER OF DROWNED NOT YET DETERMINED Only Two Persons Known to Have Been Saved When Schooner Leggett Went Down. ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 20. The exact number of those who went down with the steam schooner Frances H. Leggett when she foundered in a gale sixty miles south of the Columbia river Friday, probably prob-ably will never be known. The Associated Associat-ed Oil company's steamship Frank H. Buck, conveying the second of the leg-gett's leg-gett's two survivors into port, reached here today, but brought no additional information as to the number that perished. per-ished. The passengers who were booked before be-fore sailing numbered thirty-six, while the crew was composed of twenty-five men, making a total of sixty-one. There wero a number of passengers, however, that boarded the vessel at the last moment whose names were not recorded on shore, among them being Alexander Farrell, one of the two survivors. According to Farrell, Far-rell, the Leggett had a full list of pas- , sengers and with the crew totaled more than seventv persons. It was established today that no other vessels had picked up any survivors. So far no bodies have been recovered. |